Quotes by Pauline Kael

This movie is a toupee made up to look like honest baldness.

#Movies

The words Kiss Kiss Bang Bang which I saw on an Italian movie poster, are...

#Movies

A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is

#Judgement

The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.

#Criticism, #Information

Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as...

#Pauline Kael

A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.

#Pauline Kael

A book might be written on the injustice of the just.

#Pauline Kael

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in...

#Pauline Kael

Trash has given us an appetite for art.

#Pauline Kael

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of...

#Pauline Kael

One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes...

#Pauline Kael

Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have...

#Pauline Kael